Upgrade your software:

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Upgrade your software.

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Computers have two components - software and hardware.

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Hardware is the parts of the computer.

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Software is the system it runs on.

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It’s similar to our brain.

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Our hardware is our physical brain.

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Our software is our thoughts.

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Our neurons.

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Our subconscious.

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How does our software get built?

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Where we’re born.

The environments we’re born into.

The people we have around us.

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Our role models.

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How we were raised from 0-5.

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All of it.

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But that blueprint is flawed.

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It’s not in our control.

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It’s not up to us what software gets downloaded in our brain.

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It’s luck.

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Some of us get very lucky.

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Others not so much.

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That doesn’t mean you can’t improve it.

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It doesn’t mean you can’t change it.

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It doesn’t mean you can’t upgrade it.

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How?

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Learning.

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Unlearning.

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Understanding your code.

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Understanding your subconscious.

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Think of your subconscious like code.

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How do you de-bug it?

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How do you understand it?

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How do you process it?

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Lots of ways.

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Therapy.

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Writing.

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Psychedelics.

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Meditating.

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A combination of all of the above.

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All help you understand your software a little better.

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Why does this matter?

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Why should we upgrade our software?

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Because why not?

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Don’t you want to understand yourself?

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Don’t you want to be better?

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Don’t you want to be a better friend, family member, colleague, and person?

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To do this you must upgrade your software.

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Endless learning.

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Following your curiosities.

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Challenging what you think is possible.

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Going deep within your subconscious.

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Within your brain.

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Within your software.

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Don’t expect it to happen overnight.

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Our brains aren’t iPhone software updates that update while we’re asleep.

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It takes time.

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Slowly chucking along.

We’ve all seen those computer updates with the bar slowly moving.

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That’s us.

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The point is you should keep progressing.

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You should keep moving that bar along.

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Don’t judge yourself while you do it.

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Don’t get down on yourself.

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Don’t be self-critical.

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Just keep moving.

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1% better every day.

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Little by little.

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Then look back and see where you are.

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You’ll be shocked how far you’ve come.

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My software has been upgraded exponentially since I left medicine.

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And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Please do the same.

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For your sake and those around you.

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We need more software updates.

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Upgrade your software.

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